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  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classSquamata
  4. ›familyColubridae
  5. ›genusApostolepis
Apostolepis nigroterminata
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IUCN LC · Least concern

Peru Burrowing Snake

Apostolepis nigroterminata Boulenger, 1896

Also calledCobrinha-da-Terra (por) · Черноточечный апостолепис (rus)

First described in: Boulenger, G. A. Catalogue of the snakes in the British Museum, Vol. 3.

Descriptions from checklists and floras indexed by GBIF

distribution

Distribution. Known from Bolivia, Brazil, and Peru, mostly along the Chiquitano Dry Forest and surrounding regions (Plt. 249 A). In Brazil, found in the Cerrado and Chiquitano Dry Forest (Plt. 249 A) at low elevations (Plt. 249 B). Observed in the field in seasonally dry forest (Lema and Renner, 2016).

Atlas of Brazilian Snakes: Verified Point-Locality Maps to Mitigate the Wallacean Shortfall in a Megadiverse Snake Fauna

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From the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy and occurrence records (GBIF.org), with Wikipedia and the Source Library. GBIF species 2458307.